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#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Training-free Suction Grasp Detection for Deformed Aseptic Cartons Using Vision-Language Models and Geometric Surface Scoring

This work presents a training-free suction grasping system for sorting deformed aseptic beverage cartons, decoupling target identification from grasp-point selection, and compares three geometric methods: k-nearest-neighbour PCA, Sobel cross-product, and RANSAC plane fitting.

Marin Maletic, G. Vasiljević · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

CARDINAL Predicts Cardiovascular Risk From Non-contrast Cardiac CT

The developed CARDINAL (Cardiovascular Assessment via Representation learning from Deep Imaging with Nested Anatomical Latent embeddings), a clinically grounded framework that learns compact representations from routine non-contrast cardiac CT for major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) prediction, suggests that non-...

Roy M. Gabriel, Nattakorn Kittisut, Jamshid Hassanpour et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

PHR-VLA: Planning Horizon Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models

PHR-VLA introduces a lightweight auxiliary future head that, during training, aligns the VLA's internal representations with latent dynamics extracted from future observations, demonstrating that privileged latent dynamics alignment provides an effective training signal for improving anticipatory reasoning in VLA polic...

Davood Soleymanzadeh, Kai-Di Zhang, Zhi-Yuan Zhang et al. · 2 citations
#robotics Jul 2026

What Can Latent World Models Know? Physical Parameter Identifiability in Multimodal Predictive Representations

A central premise of latent world models is that predicting the future forces a representation to internalize the physics of its environment. Which physical quantities does a trained latent actually contain, and what decides this? We answer with controlled interventions in POKEWORLD, an interactive environment whose vi...

Kai-Zhen Tan, Xin Xu, Siru Tao et al. · 2 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Jul 2026

MEMORA: Embodied Action Memory from Egocentric Videos for Reasoning and Planning

The overall results show that editable, consolidated memory can supply remembered context for robot planning, and full MEMORA--combining editing, typed stores, and consolidation--achieves the strongest aggregate results among the evaluated memory conditions.

Zihao Yu, Xiu Yuan, Chongjie Zhang · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Aug 2026

CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning

CoToGrasp is a novel generative framework that synthesizes diverse, stable grasps strictly conditioned on specific contact topologies, and introduces a feature-based canonical workspace that projects local object features into a unified gripper-centric domain, effectively decoupling the semantic functional intent from...

Julien Mérand, Boris Meden, Li-Ming Chen et al. · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Aug 2026

Efficient Dynamic Shielding for Parametric Safety Specifications

Shielding has emerged as a promising approach for ensuring safety of AI-controlled autonomous systems. The algorithmic goal is to compute a shield, which is a runtime safety enforcement tool that needs to monitor and intervene the AI controller's actions if safety could be compromised otherwise. Traditional shields are...

Davide Corsi, Kaushik Mallik, Andoni Rodriguez et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Thinking in a Low-Resource Language: What SFT Builds, What RL Fixes, What Accuracy Cannot See

Take three frontier mixture-of-experts models (Alibaba, OpenAI, NVIDIA; 3.6-4.0B active parameters each) and fine-tune them to reason in a low-resource language. On accuracy benchmarks almost nothing happens, and the benchmark itself is noise at this scale: changing only the random seed moves the score by 7.7 points, m...

Ayoub Kirouane, Christos Petrocheilos · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Iterative Grasp Pose Refinement: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for 2D Vision

A reinforcement learning-based framework for robotic grasp refinement, integrating keypoint-based object representations with a Deep Q-Network (DQN), is proposed, offering a scalable and adaptable solution for contact-rich manipulation tasks.

Amir Arsalan Nematollahi, Shayan Ahmadi, M. T. Masouleh et al. · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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